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Sonnets to Orpheus and Duino Elegies

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Haunted by the death of a friend's daughter, Rainer Maria Rilke spent three feverish weeks writing Sonnets to Orpheus.

At around the same time, he completed The Duino Elegies, which offer meditations on love, death, God, and the meaning of life.

Intimately connected in themes, these verses are regarded as the poet's masterpieces and appear here in the acclaimed translations by Jessie Lemont.

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Product Details
Dover Publications Inc.
0486838676 / 9780486838670
Paperback / softback
831.8
28/02/2020
United States
112 pages
126 x 202 mm, 90 grams